Motivational Quotes

Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

- Manilius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

10.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

11.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

13.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

15.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

16.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

20.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

27.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

28.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

35.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

40.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

41.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

42.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

43.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

49.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

50.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott